Black Screen No Input during gameplay

[Space Cowboy]

I bought Max Payne 3 yesterday, and encountered an issue when I first started playing. The game started fine, and I ran around killing people in bulltime, when SUDDENLY! A black screen appears, reading so input. It sounds as if the fans in my computer stopped then started again, and in my headphones, I was still able to talk to people over Skype. Nothing else responded, had to hard reset.

[JacKV64]

Originally posted by The Amazing Pea:

I bought Max Payne 3 yesterday, and encountered an issue when I first started playing. The game started fine, and I ran around killing people in bulltime, when SUDDENLY! A black screen appears, reading so input. It sounds as if the fans in my computer stopped then started again, and in my headphones, I was still able to talk to people over Skype. Nothing else responded, had to hard reset.

Hey sorry for the necrobump but i'm having the same problem and googling it leads me to this thread.

Did you ever found a fix for the random black screen? if so pls tell me!

[Space Cowboy]

You're going to hate me, but my fix for the black screen was a new video card.
I had an AMD card at the time, and nothing really helped.
All I can suggest is a fresh install of the latest drivers, other than that, check if your card is still under warranty. It's more than possible there's some sort of defect with the vram.

[JacKV64]

Originally posted by The Amazing Pea:

You're going to hate me, but my fix for the black screen was a new video card.
I had an AMD card at the time, and nothing really helped.
All I can suggest is a fresh install of the latest drivers, other than that, check if your card is still under warranty. It's more than possible there's some sort of defect with the vram.

thats sad, well thanks for the reply.

My GPU it's a new R9 380 4GB, plays The Witcher 3 and BF4 like a champ with no problems nearly using all the Vram but blackscreeens Max Payne 3 for no reason.

It's just seems the game was made for Nvidia cards leading problems for AMD ones... as always.

[Space Cowboy]

I read that running the game in DX9 helps. Turning off AA, v-sync and Anisotrophic filtering apparently can also help if DX9 alone doesn't do it.
Dx9 and DX10.1/11 don't look much different in Max Payne.

[JacKV64]

Originally posted by The Amazing Pea:

I read that running the game in DX9 helps. Turning off AA, v-sync and Anisotrophic filtering apparently can also help if DX9 alone doesn't do it.
Dx9 and DX10.1/11 don't look much different in Max Payne.

Dude I finally managed to get the game running with no blackscreen!

After some hours testing with the configs i was able to get to the end of chapter 2 with no blackscreens. Using DX10 (10.1/11 blackscreens-it) with vsync on, FXAA, AA and everything to High.

I beated the game 2 years ago with every graphic option low on 1280x1024 and now i can finally replay the game on glorius 1080 60 fps with high graphics!

Thanks again for the replys and the help!

[Space Cowboy]

Sweet, good to see you got it working out!